"Jarg" wrote in message
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I saw this airplane hover in place at an airshow at Moffet Field:

http://www.worldairshownews.com/WAN/...n98/raven.html

I read that it crashed a few weeks later.

From the man's own web site:
"The Oracle Turbo Raven, powered by a 750 HP Pratt & Whitney PT6A-25C, was
the first airshow airplane to have a positive thrust-to-weight ratio. With a
performance weight of 1,900 pounds and 2,800 pounds of thrust, the Turbo
Raven could climb straight up, stop in the vertical line, and then
accelerate straight up again. Another of Wayne's favorite maneuvers in the
Oracle Turbo Raven was to power out of a flat spin without lowering the nose
below the horizon. On January 20, 1999, Wayne established a world record for
all propeller driven airplanes by going from brake release to 3,000 meters
in one minute and nine seconds. In April of 1999, flying a G-202, Wayne
broke his own world record for inverted flat spins by taking the world
record up to 78 turns. (Wayne asks anyone wishing to break this record to
add his or her turns to the top and not the bottom of this maneuver.) During
the EAA convention in Oshkosh on July 30,1999, Wayne established a new
time-to-climb record to 6,000 meters in the Oracle Turbo Raven with a time
of three minutes and six seconds.

"On October 3, 1999, one year to the day that the Oracle Turbo Raven had
been on the airshow circuit, Wayne was involved in a tragic accident while
performing in the Turbo Raven at the California International Airshow. The
airplane was a total loss and Wayne sustained a broken back and other
injuries. Thanks to the preparedness of the show's emergency personnel and
the magnificent staff of the Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital, Wayne made a
complete recovery. "

78 turns in an inverted flat spin?


Jarg

"Chandresh Prakash" wrote in message
om...
Hi,
Is there an aeroplane that can stand still in mid-air ?
I used to think that SU - 30 could do it. Is that true ?
I found no evidence on a google web/groups search.